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TIL Hawaiian pizza isn't Italian or American, but was invented by a Greek-born Canadian (Sam Panopoulos) inspired by Chinese sweet and sour flavours.

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loQZ1 TIL "Swiss Army" is a protected trademark owned by Victorinox and is not affiliated with the Swiss armed forces in any way, meaning that the famous Swiss Army knives are not actually issued by the Swiss military.
8elVX TIL As opposed to having XY chromosomes (found in mammals), birds, some fish, crustaceans, and insects have ZW system, where males typically have ZZ and female ZW chromosomes.
kJLpW TIL some types of fig require a special breed of wasp to pollinate the females fruits. The female wasp crawls inside through a hole so narrow that she loses her wings in the process and becomes trapped. The fig produces an enzyme that digests this wasp completely, so the crunchy bits are just seeds
woPr7 til The hypothetical planet Vulcan that was thought to exist in orbit between Mercury and the Sun. It was disproved via the Theory of relativity in 1915.
wL7X8 TIL that when Cartoon Network launched in 1992, they played Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture over an animated fireworks show.